Parents or caregivers who yell at their kids could be doing long-term harm to their kids’ psyches, new research suggests. Researchers from Wingate University in North Carolina and University College ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young adults who had been criticized, insulted or threatened by a parent growing up were more likely to be anxious or depressed, in a new study. Even when the same or ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The methods mothers use to control their children during playtime and other daily activities could have a negative impact on their child's self-esteem and behavior, according to ...

Dentists reported experiencing physical, verbal, and reputational aggression from their patients during the past year in a study published in the October issue of the Journal of the American Dental ...

Research on the communication trait of verbal aggressiveness (VA), which includes behavior like name calling, ridicule, insults, racial epithets and threats, has tended to focus on its social causes.

A 20-year longitudinal study has found that verbal aggression in adult romantic relationships is best predicted by the level of verbal aggression participants’ fathers directed toward their mothers, ...

When members of a couple are upset with each other’s behavior, it can be quite tempting to express their negative feelings to the other person through forms of verbal and nonverbal aggression to ...